troposphere
"troposphere" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“troposphere” is uncommon English (frequency #65,586 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,586
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The lower levels of the atmosphere extending from the surface of the Earth or another celestial body up to the tropopause. It is characterized by convective air movements and a large vertical tempe...
Corpus desk
Index EN-troposphere · troposphere · English
troposphere · rank #65,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,586
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH travertine
Nearest frequency peer: travertine (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “troposphere”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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34,420 corpus weight
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34,418 corpus weight
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34,417 corpus weight
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travertine
34,416 corpus weight
- troposphere
troposphere
34,415 corpus weight
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34,413 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “troposphere” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troposphere |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “troposphere” in English
Rare enough to double-check
troposphere is uncommon English at frequency #65,586 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The lower levels of the atmosphere extending from the surface of the Earth or another celestial body up to the tropopause. It is characterized by convective air movements and a large vertical tempe...".
Zero misspellings are on record for troposphere in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French troposphère. Equivalent to tropo- + -sphere. The correct English form is troposphere, spelled T-R-O-P-O-S-P-H-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1The lower levels of the atmosphere extending from the surface of the Earth or another celestial body up to the tropopause. It is characterized by convective air movements and a large vertical temperature change.
Etymology
Borrowed from French troposphère. Equivalent to tropo- + -sphere.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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